Monday, Dec. 09, 1935
Born. To Empress Nagako of Japan and Emperor Hirohito, a son; in Tokyo.
Married. Mrs. Ella C. Bond, 58, of Oshkosh, Wis., "Bluebird of the G. A. R.," niece of Civil War General Ambrose Everett Burnside; and Col. Ira R. Wildman, 85, Civil War drummer, of Danbury, Conn.; in Danbury.
Divorced. Alvin Karpis, fugitive "Public Enemy No. 1"; by Mrs. Dorothy Slayman Karpis; in Tulsa, Okla. Grounds: desertion.
Divorced. John Hugo Russell, 3rd Baron Ampthill, 39; by Lady Ampthill, the former Christabel Hart; after 13 years of litigation; in London. Grounds: misconduct. To Lady Ampthill was awarded custody of their child, the Hon. Geoffrey Erskine Russell, whose paternity, denied by Lord Ampthill, was established by the House of Lords after Lady Ampthill had testified that her husband had once paid a somnambulant visit to her bedchamber.
Left. By Ivy Ledbetter Lee, famed publicist of John D. Rockefeller, Pennsylvania R. R., Bethlehem Steel: a net estate of $23,889, to his widow, Mrs. Cornelia Bartlett Bigelow Lee, of Manhattan.
Died. Benjamin Edward Bensinger, 67, chairman of the board of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. (billiard tables); of heart disease; in Chicago.
Died. H. R. H. Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary, 67, sister of George V; of stomach hemorrhage; at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire. Princess Victoria's retired life and spinsterhood were popularly attributed to an early love affair with a man whom her rank forbade her to marry.
Died. James Henry Breasted, 70, famed Orientalist, founder and head of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute; of a hemolytic streptococcic infection; in Manhattan. Finds and ever more finds all over the Near East persuaded him that Egypt was the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of human conscience, whose origin and development he traced. When he was carried ill from the Conte di Savoia last week the Press revived the mythical "Curse of the Pharaohs" (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), recalled that Oldster Breasted last year snorted: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tutankh-Amen."
Died. Marry Carey Thomas, 78, educator, feminist, president of Bryn Mawr from 1894 to 1922; in Philadelphia.
Died. Charles Millard Pratt, 80, onetime (1899-1911) executive and director of the original Standard Oil Co. of which his father was cofounder, onetime president of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute; after a ten-year illness; in Glen Cove, L. I.
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